next week is carnaval and the whole country stops for the entire week. I'll be painting a lot and teaching very little (though I hope some of my students stick around and decide they want to have class, because that = money for me).

Fuck teaching. It's Caraval!

You need to drink absinthe, smoke opium and create great works of art!

Speaking of which, hows the drug market down there? If I come down to visit and climb, will I be able to get my hands on some horse tranquilizers pretty easily?

Probably yes, but I wouldn't be involved with anything like that. I don't know what the drug market is like in the US (i.e. - I've never bought and I've never been involved in any kind of transaction or in proximity to one that I knew of), but I imagine that it's not that violent. You just don't want to get involved with the folks here.

Well damn. I just found a hair in my Pad Thai. At least I saw it before I ate it.

You have probably cut yourself on rock that dozens of other guys have sweated/bled on, but you are worried about hairs in your noodles?

next week is carnaval and the whole country stops for the entire week. I'll be painting a lot and teaching very little (though I hope some of my students stick around and decide they want to have class, because that = money for me).

Fuck teaching. It's Caraval!

You need to drink absinthe, smoke opium and create great works of art!

Speaking of which, hows the drug market down there? If I come down to visit and climb, will I be able to get my hands on some horse tranquilizers pretty easily?

Drugs are bad. And scary!

You speak with such conviction and authority. You must have great practical knowledge of the subject at hand

next week is carnaval and the whole country stops for the entire week. I'll be painting a lot and teaching very little (though I hope some of my students stick around and decide they want to have class, because that = money for me).

Fuck teaching. It's Caraval!

You need to drink absinthe, smoke opium and create great works of art!

Speaking of which, hows the drug market down there? If I come down to visit and climb, will I be able to get my hands on some horse tranquilizers pretty easily?

Drugs are bad. And scary!

You speak with such conviction and authority. You must have great practical knowledge of the subject at hand

I made shrimp and grits tonight for the first time. In fact, it was the first time I ever had grits, period.

what the hell is grits?

I have no freaking clue either, but the Weselly kid ate grits every day in the 'Gunks. It's a southern thing that quite literally is probably illegal to import north of the 36 30 parallel. Shit, it might even be illegal to import it, too.

Loran, you make not know the answer to this question, but I thought I'd shoot it to you anyway just in case you have some experience working with paper and glue.

I've recently painted a bunch of oils on paper (300lb) and naturally due to the moisture the paper curves inward at the edges.

I want to glue the paper to a harder surface to flatten it out and frame it after. I'm looking for a solid, cheap, light-weight surface to glue it on, so if you can think of anything that'd be helpful, but I'm really curious about the glue. Do you have any recommendations on glues that are "permanent" in the sense that they both won't come undone and affect the paper over the long term?